Greetings, Devs!
Follow me beyond the jump for a comprehensive list of design resources that will help you take what you learned at Diane Leeper’s outstanding presentation last Tuesday, and run with it. Plus some of my own.
Enjoy!
John
UX and Design favorites
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| UX Booth | usability, user experience, and interaction design | Articles, tutorials, rss | http://www.uxbooth.com/
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| IXDA | Interaction Design Association | video | http://www.ixda.org/
Online video:
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| MIX Online | Web dev/design, discussions, software, vision | video | http://visitmix.com/
Online video:
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| BoagWorld | Web dev/design | podcast | www.boagworld.com/design
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| Lynda.com | Paid, training video library. Highly recommended for Adobe suite | Video(paid) | www.lynda.com |
| Smashing Magazine | Graphics, inspiration, coding and design | Articles, tutorials, rss | www.smashingmagazine.com
I strongly recommend: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/24/10-useful-usability-findings-and-guidelines/
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| Johnny Holland | UX and interaction design, podcast and a fun logo | Online Magazine, podcast | http://johnnyholland.org/ |
| MS Design Toolbox | Design the Microsoft way, learn and grow | Training Site | http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/ |
| A List Apart | For people who make websites. Compre-hensive CSS, jQuery, and design resources. | Articles, tutorials, rss, discussions | http://www.alistapart.com |
UX Tools, Reports, and Apps
| Topics | Cost | Link | |
| Fujitsu Accessibility Assistance: ColorDoctor | Applies filter to simulate grayscale and three types of color blindness. Can be applied to web and video, result can be saved to static image file | Free download | http://www.fujitsu.com/global/accessibility/assistance/cd/ |
| Fujitsu Accessibility Assistance: ColorSelector | Background text and color tool – useful to check legibility. Includes color blindness and cataract accessibility test. Can enter colors with eyedropper, hex, and RGB. | Free download | http://www.fujitsu.com/global/accessibility/assistance/cs/ |
| Jakob Nielsen | Considered a founder of UX.
Offers free reports and newsletter Offers in-depth UX research whitepapers, $125-300. Advertises consultations and hosts Usability Week Conferences |
Free and paid content | Paid – http://www.useit.com/ |
| Designing for Usability (1985) | “Designing for Usability:
Key Principles and What Designers Think” is a 1985 IBM article that’s considered a classic. |
Free pdf | http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/spotlight/hci/p300-gould.pdf |
| One more UX blog post: | “Usability.edu 25 Incredibly Useful Usability Cheat Sheets & Checklists” – Title says it all, exhaustive list | Laundry list | http://bestwebdesignschools.com/2009/usabilityedu-25-incredibly-useful-usability-cheat-sheets-checklists/ |
Art and Visual Brain Food
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| This is Indexed | Humorous use of common charts to display pop culture realities | Humor, charts | http://thisisindexed.com/ |
| Cool Infographics | Fun infographic collection from web, can be interesting to spark visual thinking | Image blog | http://www.coolinfographics.com/ |
| Abudeezo | Creative Inspiration, collection of themed visuals, photoshop and illustrator tutorials | Blog | http://abduzeedo.com/ |
| Illustration Friday | Creative Inspiration, contest with archive | Contest | http://www.illustrationfriday.com/ |
| Vimeo | Short film, demo reels, animation, showcase of after effects work (and much higher quality files and content than youtube) | Video | http://vimeo.com/ |
| CreatureSpot | If you can’t get enough of the D&D monster manual, check out this gaming illustration industry blog | Images | http://www.creaturespot.com/ |
| DeviantArt | ‘Hit or miss,’ best to go into community groups if you are looking for something in particular | Images | http://www.deviantart.com/ |
| (Museum sites) | Often have infuriating web design, but the chance to see their collection with a zoom applet is worth wading through the links. Also emphasize education, lots of exhibits on elements of art and design | Varies | http://hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/browse.mac/category?selLang=English
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/Art_and_Design/default.htm |
| iStockphoto | Stock photography. Good to look at for ideas and high quality stock with strong composition | Images (paid) with weekly free offerings | www.iStockphoto.com |
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